Fundición Paipote
Fundición Hernán Videla Lira better known as Fundicón Paipote, and formerly known as Fundición Nacional Paipote, is a copper smelter plant 8 km southeast of Copiapó in Chile's Atacama Region. It operates with a Teniente Converter smelting technology and produces copper anodes made of 99.6% of copper. The smelter is owned by ENAMI (Chile), ENAMI and has been paralyzed since February 2024 for a major overhaul. At the time of paralization the smelter generated economic losses for ENAMI. It is classified as a "custom smelter" as it does not depend on ore concentrate from a particular mine nor does it lie next to one. It was established in 1952 with the stated aim of smelting ores of small and medium-scale mining, medium-scale mining in the Atacama Region. Besides copper it also processes ore concentrates of silver and gold. In 2015 it had a capacity to produce 84,000 metric tons of copper yearly making it the smallest of List of copper smelters in Chile, Chile's seven copper ...
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